1 “And you make an altar for making incense. You make it of shittim wood. 2 A cubit its length and a cubit its breadth (it is square), and two cubits its height. Its horns will be of the same. 3 And you overlay it with pure gold—its top, and around its sides, and its horns. And you make a crown of gold for it all around. 4 And you make two rings of gold for it, under its crown on its two ribs. You make them on its two sides, and they will become places for poles to carry it with them. 5 And you make the poles of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. 6 And you put it before the veil, which will be by the Ark of the Testimony, before the propitiatory covering which will be over the Testimony, where I meet with you. 7 And Aaron will make incense on it, incense of spices, morning by morning. In his making the lamps right, he will make incense on it, 8 and in Aaron’s causing the lamps to go up between the evenings, he will make incense on it. It will be a continual incense before YHWH throughout your generations. 9 You do not cause strange incense to go up on it—and burnt-offering and present. And you do not pour out a drink-offering on it. 10 And Aaron will make atonement on its horns once in a year, by the blood of the sin-offering of atonements. Once in a year he will make atonement for it, throughout your generations. It will be most holy to YHWH.” 11 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 12 “When you take up the census of the sons of Israel for their numbers, then they will each give an atonement for his soul to YHWH in their being numbered, and there will be no plague among them in their being numbered. 13 This they give, everyone passing over to those numbered, half a shekel, by the shekel of the holy place (the shekel was twenty gerahs). Half a shekel will be the raised-offering to YHWH. 14 Everyone passing over to those numbered, from a son of twenty years and upwards, will give the raised-offering of YHWH. 15 The rich will not multiply, and the poor will not diminish from the half-shekel, to give the raised-offering of YHWH, to make atonement for your souls. 16 And you take the atonement-money from the sons of Israel, and give it for the service of the Tent of Meeting. And it will be to the sons of Israel for a memorial before YHWH, to make atonement for your souls.” 17 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 18 “And you will make a laver of bronze (and its base of bronze), for washing. And you put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in there, 19 and Aaron and his sons will wash their hands and their feet from it. 20 They wash with water in their going into the Tent of Meeting, and will not die. Or in their drawing near to the altar to minister, to make incense as a fire-offering to YHWH, 21 then they wash their hands and their feet, and they will not die, and it will be a continuous statute to them, to him and to his seed, throughout their generations.” 22 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 23 “And you, take these principal spices for yourself: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, and the half of that—250 shekels—of spice-cinnamon, and 250 shekels of spice-cane, 24 and 500 shekels of cassia, by the shekel of the holy place, and a hin of olive oil. 25 And you make it a holy anointing oil, a compound mixture, work of a compounder. It is a holy anointing oil. 26 And with it you anoint the Tent of Meeting, and the Ark of the Testimony, 27 and the table and all its vessels, and the lampstand and its vessels, and the altar of incense, 28 and the altar of burnt-offering and all its vessels, and the laver and its base. 29 And you sanctify them, and they will be most holy. All that will come against them will be holy. 30 And you anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them for being priests to Me. 31 And you speak to the sons of Israel, saying, This is a holy anointing oil to Me, throughout your generations. 32 It is not poured on the flesh of man, and you make nothing else like it in its proportion. It will be holy—it will be holy to you. 33 A man who compounds any like it, or who puts of it on a stranger, will even be cut off from his people.” 34 And YHWH said to Moses, “Take to yourself spices—stacte, and onycha, and galbanum—spices and pure frankincense. They are part for part. 35 And you make it an incense, a compound, work of a compounder, salted, pure, holy. 36 And you beat some of it small, and put of it before the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, to where I meet with you. It will be most holy to you. 37 As for the incense which you make, you do not make any for yourselves in its proportion. It will be holy to you for YHWH. 38 A man who makes any like it—to be refreshed by it—will even be cut off from his people.”